I never bother trying to score a fight on Saturday nights when I'm watching around a bunch of people. There is usually too many distractions for me to give it my undivided attention. I really felt like Manny won the fight after watching last night, but when I sat down and scored it round by round today I had a slightly different impression.

Overall, it was a pretty decent fight that will always be smeared with controversy, but what else is new in Boxing?

Pacquiao was never really hurt, but he did get pressed off and on throughout the fight, and at times almost bullied on the inside in a Hopkins/Holyfield head first style. Pac blasted Bradley with some great shots in every round, and while judges don't give out 10-10 rounds, I think there were some pretty close rounds throughout this fight.

Boxing is a farce anyway. The amount of BS decision I've seen since I was a kid is scandalous.

MMA has a lot of BS decisions too. Officials make mistakes in all sports.

The problem with judging in Boxing/MMA has always been the subjectivity. Judges have to record a score after each round and they don't have the benefit of being able to go back and watch replays like us keyboard warriors. Same thing goes for the "compubox" stats. That is just two guys pushing buttons as the fight is happening in real time and it's not a perfect science.

One thing I've noticed in a lot of discussions is that while the overwhelming majority of people obviously scored the fight for Pacquiao, the rounds that people gave to Bradley were all over the board. I think that is telling of the fact that the fight was closer than some think.

Still, I do agree that all of this controversy sucks for the sport, but that's how it goes sometimes. It's not the first time it's happened, and it won't be the last.

MMA has a lot of BS decisions too. Officials make mistakes in all sports.

The problem with judging in Boxing/MMA has always been the subjectivity. Judges have to record a score after each round and they don't have the benefit of being able to go back and watch replays like us keyboard warriors. Same thing goes for the "compubox" stats. That is just two guys pushing buttons as the fight is happening in real time and it's not a perfect science.

One thing I've noticed in a lot of discussions is that while the overwhelming majority of people obviously scored the fight for Pacquiao, the rounds that people gave to Bradley were all over the board. I think that is telling of the fact that the fight was closer than some think.

Still, I do agree that all of this controversy sucks for the sport, but that's how it goes sometimes. It's not the first time it's happened, and it won't be the last.

I agree to a certain extent, but the one's that happen in Boxing are not just due to how a couple of people viewed the fight, there is blatant cheating involved. Peterson/Khan springs to mind. Deducting points for pushing? That has never happened before and will never happen again.

I agree to a certain extent, but the one's that happen in Boxing are not just due to how a couple of people viewed the fight, there is blatant cheating involved. Peterson/Khan springs to mind. Deducting points for pushing? That has never happened before and will never happen again.

That argument can be made in MMA too. MMA has had it's fair share of controversial decisions and general shadiness both internally and on the side of the commissions over the years.

As for Khan/Peterson, the WBA did their investigation into the scoring fiasco and ordered the rematch, which was the right thing to do. However, they just canceled the rematch because Peterson tested positive for synthetic testosterone, something the MMA world is very familiar with in recent years.